Inflation further eased to 4.80 per cent for the week ended June 2 as compared to 4.85 per cent in the previous week, mainly due to decline in prices of food articles and some fuel and manufactured items.

The decline in inflation is also due to base effect of last year. The wholesale prices-based index was at 4.88 per cent during the corresponding week last year. However, the aggregate WPI went up by 0.1 per cent to 211.9 points during the week from 211.7 points a week ago.